High Adventure in Big Sky Country

When Ulysses Pope abruptly walks away from his wife and sons in 1886 Minnesota, he leaves behind a cryptic note, and a family torn by doubt and confusion. What follows in Lin Enger’s wonderful novel The High Divide: A Novel is a compelling story of a house divided, of a man’s haunting pursuit of forgiveness, and a family’s search for the husband and father they thought they knew—but never really did. Set against the backdrop of the Smithsonian Institute’s Hornaday expedition to pr